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Getting Started with Team-Based Learning (TBL): An Introduction
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Ruder, Phil; Maier, Mark H.; Simkins, Scott P. – Journal of Economic Education, 2021
Instructors of active-learning classes in economics face the challenges of motivating students to prepare before class and engaging fully in class activities. Team-based learning (TBL) pedagogy meets these challenges by (1) placing students in fixed, instructor-created teams that develop the ability to work productively together, (2) holding…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Active Learning, Student Motivation, Learner Engagement
Data-Based Active Learning in the Principles of Macroeconomics Course: A Mock FOMC Meeting
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Whiting, Cathleen – Journal of Economic Education, 2006
The author presents an active-learning exercise for the introductory macroeconomics class in which students participate in a mock Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting. Preparation involves data gathering and writing both a research report and a policy recommendation. An FOMC meeting is simulated in which students give their policy…
Descriptors: Macroeconomics, Active Learning, Simulation, Meetings